Topic: Militia - LHN - 6/5/12
6th ALH
6th Australian (New England) Light Horse
1909
Australian Horse [1897 - 1903]
6th Australian (Australian Horse) Light Horse [1903 - 1906]
6th Australian (New England Light Horse) Light Horse [1907 - 1912]
5th Australian (New England Light Horse) Light Horse Regiment [1912 - 1918]
12th Australian (New England Light Horse) Light Horse Regiment [1919 - 1942]
12th (New England Light Horse) Motor Regiment [1942 - 1942]
12th (New England Light Horse) Armoured Car Regiment [1942 - 1943]
12th/16th (Hunter River Lancers) Armoured Car Regiment [1948 - ]
Virtutis Fortuna Comes - Fortune is the Companion of Valour
District
New England and Liverpool Plains
Brigade
2nd Brigade, Northern New South Wales
Headquarters
Honorary ColonelArmidale
The Right Honorable William Lygon Earl Beauchamp, KCMG.
Commanding Officer
Lieutenant Colonel, The Honorable Rupert Clement George Carrington, CVO, DSO, Boer War Veteran, 9 July 1904.
Adjutant
Lieutenant John Lorimer Gibson Johnstone, 1 July 1906.
Quartermaster
Honorary Lieutenant Sydney Plessos Crummer, 1 March 1904.
Medical Officer
Vacant.
Veterinary Officer
Vacant.
Machine Gun Section
Glen Innes
Captain Frederick Norris Lowther-Crofton, 2 August 1908.
Pom Pom Section
Armidale
Second Lieutenant Robert Furnifull Craigie, 6 April 1908.
1st Tenterfield - Glen Innes Squadron
Major Percy Phipps Abbott, 22 June 1908.
Second Lieutenant James Frederick White, 9 January 1907.
Second Lieutenant Frithiof Valdemar Wikner, 10 August 1908.
2nd Armidale - Guyra Squadron
Captain James Moffatt Reid, 19 February 1907.
Lieutenant Harold Fletcher White, 21 January 1908.
Lieutenant Alexander Mitchell, 19 May 1908.
Second Lieutenant Linden Howard Russell Higinbotham, 2 June 1908.
3rd Inverell - Little Plain Squadron
Captain Charles George Gordon, 3 August 1908.
Lieutenant Percy Robert Bell, 19 May 1908.
Lieutenant Walter Spencer Lawry, 19 May 1908.
Lieutenant Heathcote Wyndham, 19 May 1908.
Second Lieutenant Harold Albert Duckett White, 1 July 1907.
4th Tamworth - Manilla Squadron
Captain Thomas Norman Johnstone, 3 August 1908.
Lieutenant Frank Page Cousens, 1 July 1906.
Second Lieutenant Ayshford Alfred Reginald Cardale, 11 October 1907.
Second Lieutenant Rupert Noel Richardson, 2 June 1908.
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Further Reading:
6th/5th/12th Australian (New England) Light Horse
Militia Light Horse, New South Wales
Australian Militia Light Horse
Citation: 6th Australian (New England) Light Horse Regiment, 1909
